Tiger Woods car/life crash

it's like if ur gonna ruin ur life...

def. not a jennifer aniston for angelina jolie trade up amirite guys? anyone?

As bad as he is for playing out, I've gotta wonder about skanky women who a) get involved with a married man and b) expect him to 'take care of them' when by being with them he's already proved he's not worth trusting to take care of a damned thing.

beyond some very basic biological functions (eating, sexing, shitting, etc.) anyone who uses the "we're not wired for _____" argument is totally suspect to me. oldest rhetorical trick in the book, and a really annoying one.

The 'other' women are really....rough.

The more I think about it, the more I'm struck by how weird it is that he's such a relentless collector of blondes. It feels like revenge for high school or something.

― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Monday, December 14, 2009 5:38 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

guys generally favor one hair color or another, seems weird to me to assume that kind of tendency has to stem from some trauma or formative social experience

i know i'm late but

see i don't really buy this line on this particular story. i mean, ok, yes, right, we all know that. but tiger's problem is not "just being human" or however the media critics would put it. what i think is under-discussed or appreciated is how much this whole thing reveals about the kind of privilege and entitlement conferred by wealth and status. the deadspin article started to get into that, talking about how this was a not-uncommon sort of thing for millionaire athletes. but it's not just athletes; millionaires of all kinds live in this realm of private clubs and resorts, personal services that can requisition whatever you want, and it all leads to a whole lot of what most people would consider pretty gross behavior. that's the aspect that i think is most interesting, and just making this a story of one man's sins sort of obscures that.

and ok, there's nothing new or shocking about rich people being pigs. but we don't really hear enough about it, i don't think. every individual case of excess is treated as an individual case of excess, not as a symptom of some fundamental rot in a society that has spent the last several decades transferring more and more of our wealth to a small number of people at the top. and that's why i think the "oh we build them up to tear them down" narrative is deeply suspect, because it makes us somehow responsible for their abuses of power and wealth. it's this whole icarus bullshit, "oh we expect them to fly too close to the sun," blah blah blah. i'm sure tiger woods has a lot of pressures and a lot of problems, but so do lots of people in america, and they don't have millions of dollars to go drown their sorrows in porn stars and ambien. (still really don't get the ambien thing.)

― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Sunday, December 13, 2009 9:25 PM

this is really really OTM and i've actually been amazed that of all places Deadspin is the only venue i've seen approaching this seriously.

I mean, it's not like he took a swing at any of these women with a golf club...

guys generally favor one hair color or another, seems weird to me to assume that kind of tendency has to stem from some trauma or formative social experience

Is this true? Maybe it's just that I was always an equal-opportunity slut.

i don't think any of these girls are "ugly" necessarily, they're just party girl types who are putting out that "up for anything" vibe that guys like tiger woods find appealing, because they know they don't have to try too hard to get them where they want them.

The more I think about it, there's a reason why it's illegal to swing a stick at someone in a violent rage while it's legal to be a cad.

maybe "generally favor" is too far, but really lots of dudes just prefer brunettes or blondes or w/e across the board, and if it's the latter it doesn't occur to me that it has anything to do with "revenge for high school" or something

maybe the other 246 women who we haven't heard from are an equal mix

How did you obtain such a precise number?

The number of Tiger's visits to the free clinic?

I've gotta wonder about skanky women who a) get involved with a married man and b) expect him to 'take care of them' when by being with them he's already proved he's not worth trusting to take care of a damned thing.

I just find it weird that they all seemed shocked to find out that Tiger other mistresses.

this story has me thinking once again that the prizes women win for being beautiful and/or hot range from being not that great to downright dismal.

to be fair, i imagine for many / any with sense / careers to watch out for are probably keeping quiet about it -- the ones who have been revealed thus far might not exactly be a perfect sampling

estela otm
i don't really wonder about them. if they had enough self-worth and good sense to avoid these situations they wouldn't be very good skanks.

xpost LOL Nicole, I especially liked how the shock was served with a steaming side-order of 'righteous indignation' also who was it (a woman) that said 'when a mistress marries her man she creates an opening'.

i was just thinking about how much work it must have taken to not only be sleeping with all of these women (and how many more?), but also to have made many of them feel like they were "the (other) one". anyway:

http://www.examiner.com/x-32857-Boston-Celebrity-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m12d14-Tiger-Woods-update-Elin-Nordegren-spotted-without-her-wedding-ring-photo

harbl otm

and ok, there's nothing new or shocking about rich people being pigs. but we don't really hear enough about it, i don't think. every individual case of excess is treated as an individual case of excess, not as a symptom of some fundamental rot in a society that has spent the last several decades transferring more and more of our wealth to a small number of people at the top.

um yes, it's only in the last several decades where wealth is distributed to a small number of people at the top.

get a fucking grip?

i think at a certain level of fame, every celebrity is a little closer to howard hughes than they are to a normal, functioning everyday person

i was just thinking about how much work it must have taken to not only be sleeping with all of these women (and how many more?), but also to have made many of them feel like they were "the (other) one"

yeah, when someone opines that mongamy is hard work my mind kinda boggles tbh.

mon gamy

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3300/3275089750_c4ed46bbaf.jpg

truly madly deeply quietly secretively

yeah that to me is kinda crazy -- on some level i can at least understand a guy having a lot of one night stands, or one or two girls on the side, but the sheer impracticality of having a bunch of girlfriends, even casual ones, in addition to a wife is insane.

honestly in order to pull that off he'd have to spend every waking minute in which he wasn't playing golf on juggling all of them, and this is only accounting for the ones we know about.

tbf if theres one dude who can do the impossible

juggling them on the end of his golf club

<a href="http://static.lifeandstylemag.com/2009/12/951-tiger.html";> IS THERE A TIGER WOODS SEX TAPE???</a>

Like we really want to know.

http://static.lifeandstylemag.com/2009/12/951-tiger.html

The obligatory sex tape is just par for the course nowadays.

I would have thought it would have surfaced by now. If his texts are anything to go by his phone sex isn't going to be hugely exciting.

"And we're on the green in one"

"Six inch putt"

Did we not do this upthread already?

"I'll show you the size of my tee"

"According to the report, Ladiser drank two drink glasses of Jack Daniel's after he arrived at the Golf Club at Redmond Ridge and continued to drink heavily as he played in a foursome that included Michael Pattison, government-affairs manager for the Master Builders."

did Michael Pattison get fired too?

First of, these women are not ugly. I mean, wtf, what are your standards? A bit too high maybe. They are also girls he picked up at bars (and the media is going to only portray them as party girls of course). On top of that I find it wrong to connect this philandering with his money. Fuck, I know plenty of "poor" guys who fuck around like him.

I think his people should have gone with the (semi) reality. Instead of going for a cleancut image, they should have made him like this sex god. semi-lol

As bad as he is for playing out, I've gotta wonder about skanky women who a) get involved with a married man and b) expect him to 'take care of them' when by being with them he's already proved he's not worth trusting to take care of a damned thing.

Skanky? How do you come to that conclusion? They were wrong to jump in bed with him. But maybe some of them were just plain naive. On top of that, maybe they didn't know he was married. I was only vaguely aware of his wife.

I think it's wrong to assume that if you fuck outside of your marriage, this implies you are a cheat all the way. Friend of course cheated on his wife. He ultimately divorced his wife and married the other. THey are still married after all these years (plus two decades btw). Another friend of ours same thing.

No, but in Wilde's words, "Once may be regarded as an accident, seven looks like..."

I think his people should have gone with the (semi) reality

don't think that'd look great in the photos..

On top of that I find it wrong to connect this philandering with his money.

You're not serious?

"What first attracted you to the billionaire Tiger Woods?"

it's his personality

xpost "well my girlfriends are always telling me that he's very talented..."

Balding golf geeks are renowned for their success with women

Nath, Tiger Woods' marriage and family life has been relentlessly placed in our media. I don't know how anyone interested enough to meet him could fail to note he was married, with kids - you'd have to be the kind of person who didn't give a shit about another woman to proceed in any case, and I just have a problem with women like that (and no problem laughing at them when they get hypocritically upset about their arrangement not being exclusive).

BTW I know of quite a few celebrities who seem to have open relationships their wives don't know about, and the lack of self-respect in the women involved is staggering - quite happy to sneak around, quite happy to be blanked in public, quite happy to use the servant's/tradesman's entrance (NO KEN) and generally quite happy to accept third-class treatment for what probably isn't even first-class sex. Oh, to be a Happy Hookup.

On top of that I find it wrong to connect this philandering with his money.

You're not serious?

I am. Some are connecting the fact he has money to his addiction to sex. I am convinced that without the money, he probably would have fucked around just as much. It is a factor of course, no question about it, but I am sure it isn't as important as people like to think it is.

Nath, Tiger Woods' marriage and family life has been relentlessly placed in our media.

Suzy, you are in and interested in the media, you are wrong to assume that all people are aware o f his marriage. He picked up these women in bars, restaurants,... They didn't really seek him out, it's more the other way around, he approached them. That's the impression I have anyway.

I agree with you about women who are aware. It's just wrong. But I do not want to see all of his conquests like that.

Uh nathalie, his wedding was like national news, and I don't even WATCH the news. They knew. For sure.